The Unknown Known: Errol Morris' New Doc Tackles Unrepentant Iraq War Architect Donald Rumsfeld 2/2 — Transcript

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1. 0:01downhill like a
2. 0:02tobogan uh ever since the Obama
3. 0:05Administration came in now uh take for
4. 0:08example the fact that we have status of
5. 0:10forces agreement probably with 100 125
6. 0:13countries in the world this
7. 0:15Administration the White House and the
8. 0:17state department have failed to get a
9. 0:19status of force of agreement a a trained
10. 0:22a could get a status of forces agreement
11. 0:24it does not take a
12. 0:27genius harol Morris your reaction to
13. 0:29this latest statement by non
14. 0:33Rumsfeld
15. 0:36horrified
16. 0:40uh we all know that the various
17. 0:44officials of the Bush
18. 0:48Administration George W bush himself
19. 0:50will never be held
20. 0:53accountable for most if not all of the
21. 0:57things that happened under their watch
22. 1:01um they can now sit back and
23. 1:04Crow uh about one thing or
24. 1:07another uh and indulge in one form of
25. 1:10partisan politics after
26. 1:13another maybe that's the most disturbing
27. 1:16thing about this story if they took us
28. 1:20to war for no good
29. 1:25reason shouldn't they be in some way
30. 1:28held accountable for that that
31. 1:31fact isn't that important to our
32. 1:34democracy that we just don't simply
33. 1:38sweep the past under the rug that we
34. 1:41deal with it in some fashion well
35. 1:44interestingly in your interview with r
36. 1:47one of the one of the mistakes he
37. 1:49believes he made was not resigning after
38. 1:53the Abu gra Revelations even though he
39. 1:56hastens to add that uh it was overblown
40. 2:00as a systemic problem rather than a
41. 2:01problem of a few guys few bad apples in
42. 2:05the military and a on a night shift he
43. 2:08tendered two resignations neither of
44. 2:10which were accepted by the
45. 2:14president
46. 2:18um he often wants to have it both
47. 2:22ways uh
48. 2:24he will provide some
49. 2:28gesture uh suggesting that he takes
50. 2:30complete responsibility and on the other
51. 2:33hand take none does he ever
52. 2:37apologize that word is not really part
53. 2:40of his
54. 2:41lexicon no they're no apologies what
55. 2:44most shocked you in your 3 three hours
56. 2:45of conversation with Donald
57. 2:48drum so many things the fact that he uh
58. 2:54he unendingly says things
59. 2:57which are not
60. 3:00true how about he unendingly says things
61. 3:04that are
62. 3:05false um does he even realize it so you
63. 3:08say he lies throughout
64. 3:11lying we have two seconds depends on a
65. 3:14conscious element who the hell knows
66. 3:16what's going on
67. 3:18upstairs certainly don't I want to thank
68. 3:20you for being with us the director of
69. 3:22the new documentary The Unknown know it
70. 3:24opens in New York and Los Angeles on
71. 3:26April 2nd that does it for a broadcast
72. 3:28I'm Amy Goodman withan gon